100 Vocabulary Words
100 flashcards
- Venery
- the pursuit of sexual satisfaction
- Unremitting
- constant
- Solace
- comfort
- Insidious
- sly
- Martial
- warlike
- Supplication
- plea
- Avert
- to prevent or to change direction
- Spurned
- denied
- Inviolate
- uncorrupted, unstained, pure
- Adversary
- opposer
- Vigilant
- cautious observant
- Inevitable
- unavoidable
- Formidable
- very powerful
- Remonstrated
- disapproved
- Delusive
- imaginary, misleading
- Base
- dishonorable
- Infidel
- someone who does not believe in the right religion; someone who does not believe in the same religion as the one using the word
- Tories
- loyalists
- Whigs
- the patriots in the Revolutionary War
- Ardor
- intense passion
- Sottish
- stupid due to being drunk
- Chastise
- to harshly criticize or punish
- Hessians
- German troops who allied with Britain
- Precipitate
- abrupt
- Celestial
- relating to heaven
- Dominion
- reign
- Tyranny
- a type of government ruled by a single all-powerful leader
- Impious
- disrespectful to God; not religious
- Pretense
- a false statement
- Ravage
- ruin
- Relinquished
- surrendered
- Perseverance
- determination to keep trying to do something until success is achieved
- Consolation
- comfort received when something bad happens
- Prudence
- careful judgment
- Eloquence
- powerful and influential speech
- Transient
- lasting in a short period of time
- Succorless
- Being without help in a desperate situation
- Constrains
- to make someone do something
- Expunge
- to remove
- Candid
- to be very honest
- Abdicated
- given up power
- Magnanimity
- the quality of being generous
- Acquiesce
- to agree to do something without complaints
- Renounce
- to stop trying, to give up
- Reprobating
- disapproving
- Censures
- severe criticism
- Complaisance
- willingness to agree with others' ideas
- Usurpation
- the act of taking someone's power away
- Evinces
- to display something clearly
- Despotism
- rule by tyranny
- Inestimable
- too much to be calculated
- Endeavored
- tried really hard
- Perify
- lie, treachery
- Opprobrium
- a dishonorable behavior
- Redress
- action of correcting something wrong and unfair
- Consanguinity
- bloodline
- Inalienable
- not able to be taken away
- Denounce
- to announce; a disapproval or rejection; to accuse
- Engrossed
- written in the final draft; completely absorbed in or by
- Impunity
- exemption from being punished
- Foment
- to arouse
- Vassals
- servants
- Convenant
- an agreement
- Remuneration
- payment
- Apostolic
- relating to the Pope
- Prerogative
- an exceptional right or privilege
- Disfranchisement
- act of taking away someone's right; to deprive or exclude
- Lamentable
- very disappointing
- Entreated
- to beg
- Afflictions
- Something that causes pain
- Plunder
- to steal something by using force
- Melancholy
- a state of sadness
- Decrepit
- worn out
- Fain
- happy
- Abate
- to decrease in amount, degree, or intensity
- Contrivance
- a plan or a trick
- Omnipotent
- able to do everything; to know everything
- Abhors
- to hate something because it's morally wrong
- Abominable
- extremely bad or unpleasant
- Ascribed
- to claim the source or the cause of something
- Induce
- to make someone do something unwise
- Apprehension
- fear of what's going to happen in the future
- Alleviate
- to lessen a pain, sorrow, etc.
- Interspersed
- placed among other things
- Commodious
- spacious
- Consternation
- confusion caused by shock or fear
- Improvident
- careless about planning for the future
- Avarice
- greed
- Rouge
- red powder that women put on their cheek
- Copious
- abundant
- Pestilential
- extremely harmful
- Fetters
- to chain
- Scruple
- a doubt due to morality
- Arduous
- requiring a lot of energy
- Rectitude
- behavior that is morally right
- Facilitate
- to make something easier
- Subsequent
- following
- Eradicate
- to destroy
- Precept
- a rule of behavior
- Trifling
- unimportant